Garment hanger



I June 25, 1957 E. M. EMMERLING GARMENT HANGER Filed June 18, 1954 'lI/IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII/III f2? ventar [owaro IV. [mm erV/Q by M@/ United States Patent GARMENT HANGER Edward M. Emmet-ling, Albany, N. Y. Application June 18, 1954, Serial No. 437,750

4 Claims. ((31. 223-88) This invention relates to garment hangers, having particular reference to a swiveling type of garment hanger of novel construction and arrangement of parts, and the provision of such a device is a principal object of the invention.

Generally, it is an object of the invention to provide such a hanger that is simple, yet sturdy and durable of construction, economic of manufacture, and otherwise well suited to the purposes for which it is intended.

M-ore specifically, it is an object of the invention to provide a garment hanger comprising an elongated wire having a straight intermediate portion with opposite ends thereof bent back upon itself and terminating in spaced anchoring portions, a clamp having a recessed surface,

to receive said anchoring portions together with a hanger support therebetween, and a plane surface with means to hold the same in connected position, and a hook constituting the hanger support mounted in the clamp in a manner such that the hook when placed upon a bar will remain stationary while the clamp and remaining portion of the hanger, particularlywhile supporting a garment, can be rotated thereon.

Further specific objects of the invention are to provide portions that terminate in enlargements or hooks in order to prevent displacement thereof from said clamp; in which said hooks constitute eyelets, and with the clamp holding means preferably constituting rivets or screws penetrating the clamp and eyelets to prevent displacement thereof; in which the hook terminates in an enlarged portion to prevent displacement of the hook from the clamp; and in which the hanger support consists of a single wire having a straight shank recessed in the clamp, preferably with a disk at one end to prevent dislodgement from the clamp, and with the other end terminating in a goose-neck and hanger supporting hook, whereby frictionally to be reeeived by a supporting bar.

Other specific objects of the invention will in part be obvious and will in part appear hereinafter.

The invention accordingly comprise an article of manufacture possessing the features, properties, and the relation of elements which will be exemplified in the article hereinafter described and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the claims.

For a fuller understanding of the nature and objects of the invention reference should be had to the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. l is a perspective view of a swiveling type of hanger embodying the invention, with a portion broken away and other portions opened and in spaced relation for illustrative purposes;

Fig. 2 is a front elevational view of a fragmentary portion of the garment supporting part of the hanger, together with the clamp and hanger support;

Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the clamp taken along the lines 33 of Fig. 2 and looking in the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 4 is a similar view taken along the lines 4-4 of Fig. 2 and looking in the direction of the arrows; and

Fig. 5 is a plan view of such a hanger mounted on a bar depicting a garment thereon and illustrating the swiveling action thereof in dotted line position.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, there is indicated generally at 10 a preferred embodiment of the swiveling type of garment hanger. There are three distinct members or parts entering into the combination and these comprise the garment supporting member indicated at 11, the clamping means indicated generally at 12 and the garment hanger support indicated generally at 13.

The first member preferably consists of an elongated wire 11, as indicated, having a straight intermediate portion 14 for supporting a garment such as, for example, a pair of trousers or the like. The opposite ends of the intermediate portion 14 are bent back and angularly with respect thereto as at 15, and this provides another garment supporting portion, such as, for example, a coat or the like. The portions 15 have their end sections again angularly bent as at 16 and these ends terminate in hooks or eyelets 17, the sections 16 and 17 together forming anchoring portions which, it will be noted, are in spaced relation with respect to each other.

The clamp member, or clamping means, indicated gen erally at 12, preferably comprises a rectangularly shaped metallic blank which may be punched and stamped to provide a recessed surface 18 and a plane surface 19. It will be noted that the recessed surface has been so stamped or impressed that it provides for raised sections, that is, landed portions or plateaus 2t), 21, 22 and 23 which are also spaced with respect to each other to provide recesses as indicated at 24 and 25, and a central recess 26. The spaces between the raised portions 20 through 23, or recesses, are somewhat larger than the diameter of the wire 11 in order comfortably to receive the same such as, the sections 16 within the recesses 24 and 25, but narrow enough to prevent the passage therethrough of the eyelets 17.

A third member 13 comprises a single wire having a straight shank portion 27 which fits into the recess 26. At one end thereof is a disk 28 within the confines of the clamp to prevent dislodgement therefrom and the other end thereof terminating in a goose-neck 29 and hanger supporting hook 30. With this arrangement the hanger is in balanced suspension and, since the opening between the top of the goose-neck portion and the hook 30 is preferably somewhat constricted, the same will act as a snap-on clamp whereby frictionally to be received by the conventional supporting bar found in clothing stores as well as in the wardrobe of a household. This bar is indicated generally in part at 31 in dotted lines.

The clamp is provided with securing elements to hold the same in clamping position. For this purpose, each portion, 18 and 19, of the clamp is provided with punched out holes 32. The clamp is transversely bent around an area 33 which is sufiiciently spaced freely to accommodate the disk 28 without binding the same, and when the sections 18 and 19 are brought substantially in faceto-face relation, the holes 32 will be in alignment. Also, the eyelets 17 will be in alignment with the holes 32 for the reception, for example, of such securing elements as rivets 34, or screws, to hold the clamp, and first and third members, 11 and 13, in position.

It will be noted that the members 11 and 12 are relatively rotatable, or swivelly mounted, with respect to each other. However, when the third member 13 is secured to the garment supporting bar 31, it will remain fixed and then only the garment supporting portions 14 and 15, together with the clamp 12, freely may be rotated with a garment thereon as clearly illustrated in Fig. 5 in which the garment is indicated at 35. This is of very 3 practical eifeot, particularly in clothing stores where it is desired to show both sides of the garment without removing them from the supporting bar for inspection purposes, The swiveling action also allows the garments to align themselves alittle more readily when they are more or l'ess closely packed since-there is no binding action as would be the case with the conventional hangers where the hook is out of alignment with the garment supporting portion. i

It will thus be seen'that the objects hereinbefore set forth may readily and efficiently be attained, and since certain changes may be made in the above article and different embodiments of the invention could be made 1 without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrativeand not in a limiting sense. i

t It is also to be understood that the following claims 1 are intended to cover .all of the generic and specific ,features of the invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by' Letters Patent is:

1. A swiveling garment hanger, comprising a hanger member constituting a single elongated Wire having a straight intermediate portion for supporting a garment, and another garment supporting portion composed of angular portions joined to the outer ends of the straight intermediate portion and overlying said intermediate portion and having spaced substantially parallel sections extending upwardly from the upper ends of the angular portions, the said sections terminating in hooks; a swiveling hanger support which comprises a shank disposed between said parallel sections, in spaced parallel relation thereto, but extending above and below the same, which shank terminates in an enlargement at one end, and, at its other end, extends into a goose-neck that terminates in a resilient hook forming portion with said goose-neck; and

a clamp comprising a rectangularly shaped plate, transversely bent upon itself, one section of which plate has inwardly struck portions providing coplanar raised sections and spaced substantially parallel recesses within which said parallel sections and hanger support shank are located, the other section of said plate lying flush against said raised sections, and an intermediate section around which said plate is bent in spaced apart relation freely to accommodate the enlargement at the end of said shank for free rotation of said clamp and hanger; and means penetrating opposite ends of said bent plate, in the area of saidhooks, to hold said structures in position within said clamp.

2. A garment hanger as defined in claim 1, and further characterized in that said hooks consist of eyelets of a diameter greater than the width of said recesses in which said parallel sections are lodged, whereby to prevent displacement of'said garment hanger portions;

3. A garment hanger as defined in claim Land further characterized in that said enlargement consists of a disk of a diameter greater than the width of said recess in which said shank is lodged, whereby to prevent displacement of said hanger support.

4. A garment hanger as defined in claim 1, and further characterized in that opposite ends of said plate are provided with openings which, when said plate is bent upon itself in clamp formation, fall into alignment with each other, and withsaid hooks, and means penetrating said clamp openings and said hooks, whereby to lock said hanger and hanger support in'position swivelly with respect to each other.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED'STATES PATENTS 1,692,084 Gerard Nov. 20, 1928 1,818,193 Burde Aug. 11, 1931 1,824,138 Heimann Sept. 22, 1931 

